What would “selling Chrome” even entail? The vast majority of Chrome’s source code is free and open source software, i.e. it has no owners. Does the US government want Google’s developers of the Chromium codebase to work on another company’s payroll instead? Do they want Google to be prohibited from distributing a browser based on the Chromium codebase? Have they given any of this any thought at all?

How old is “old” for this purpose?

It would be possible to set up an instance where users could post as guests, ie everyone who did that would appear as the same user, something like [email protected].

It is also likely that such accounts would soon be banned in many places because people will use them to post unwanted posts and comments.

“Mastodon” is probably not doing that, a specific instance might be though?

And originally it was “general image manipulation program”.

A long time ago I did some things with https://revealjs.com/ but not sure how viable that is.

In principle the main thing you’d need to have is a way for people to post anonymously. This could be implemented by having all posts and comments appear as sent by [email protected] or similar.

The rest is just a different (flat) interface for “group federation” and possibly a requirement to attach images to new posts. In principle this could interface with existing federated groups just fine I think, only it’s likely a lot of communities and instances would ban that “anonymous” user very soon.

I’ve been calling it threadiverse because that is what I saw most other people call it.

Really all it is is “ActivityPub groups” or if that is too technical, “fediverse groups”.

The existence of cash is probably the least of one’s problems in that scenario. How is food going to be delivered to stores without working gas pumps? How will stores open their electronic doors or process payments without a cash register?

If this is something you are worried about, store enough non-perishable (eg canned) food in your home so you don’t starve in that scenario.

Quite possibly true, it’s just that I haven’t seen this kind of thing from xkcd before.

Not possible with OsmAnd, if you want to edit geometry you need a full featured editor. For Android one option is Vespucci.

Is Randall now just retelling YouTube videos from 2013? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eKc5kgPVrA

Probably true. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ was written before most people cared much about this but certainly applies very strongly to it. I am fortunately not directly affected by it either way (I am neither trans nor a woman nor have any desire to pretend to be trans in order to get access to women’s spaces) so it doesn’t get my emotions up much to read any side’s arguments; I can see why that may be different for others.

When I first became active on reddit, I admired how few sitewide rules they had and how much free speech they allowed.

Now they ban debate about one of the most contentious and multifaceted societal issues of the present. What are online discussion forums there for if not to openly and civilly exchange ideas about issues like this?

Is this not basically true, that that is how group federation works? Not sure what exactly you are trying to say.

That would be even better, but according to this, only moderators of the community can request that from rss.ponder.cat. I am not a moderator of this community, so this is why I wrote my request the way I did; if you want to chime in there, go ahead.

Why do you think Donald Trump has any clue about anything he is doing? Has he not repeatedly demonstrated the opposite?

By participating on it, mainly. The more people notice that using Lemmy is a way to kill boredom and stay informed about things they are interested in, the more people will look here instead of (or in addition to) reddit or Facebook or other places.

Get medication against acne from a doctor. That was the only thing that finally helped me get rid of it.

What place do I get teleported to? If I’m teleported to the same place on Earth, then I just fell down several meters into a swamp and am probably going to die here.